Douluo: My Custom Achievement System

As Jiang Yi spoke, he handed the Life Essence to Li Lingyu.

Li Lingyu's hand trembled slightly as he held the bottle containing the Life Essence.

From what Jiang Yi had just said, he seemed to have found a glimmer of hope.

Perhaps this Life Essence really could help his injuries?

"Teacher, give it a try," Jiang Yi said again.

Li Lingyu came back to his senses and, under Jiang Yi's encouraging gaze, slowly nodded.

He opened the bottle and drank all the Life Essence inside in one gulp.

Rich vitality poured into Li Lingyu's battered body.

His body had suffered damage from extreme training and the use of all kinds of incompletely developed medicines. It had long since been beyond the reach of medicine.

Back when he was still at Shrek Academy, a healing Soul Master at the Titled Douluo level had treated him. That had been the Titled Douluo's conclusion.

Li Lingyu had been unwilling to believe it, but there was nothing he could do.

He had already given up on his body and planned to devote the rest of his life to theoretical research.

But later, another person had become his test subject and ultimately suffered injuries almost identical to his own.

Only then had he once again entertained the idea of treating his injuries, though it was more for that person's sake.

Time ticked by, and Jiang Yi watched the changes in Li Lingyu's body closely.

The vitality radiating from Li Lingyu had been strong at first, but it weakened extremely quickly because it was being rapidly absorbed.

After about three minutes, the vitality around Li Lingyu settled down, and he opened his eyes.

"Really, there really are signs of healing!" Li Lingyu murmured excitedly to himself.

Those injuries that had proven difficult to treat, whether a Titled Douluo intervened or any medicine was used-

After he took the Life Essence, they showed signs of healing.

Although the change was slight, it had already proved that the Life Essence Jiang Yi extracted could heal his injuries and that person's injuries as well.

As long as there was enough Life Essence, it would be no problem for both of them to make a full recovery.

Watching the excited Li Lingyu, Jiang Yi understood that the Life Essence worked on his injuries.

"Little Yi, how quickly can you condense your Life Essence?" Li Lingyu asked impatiently.

"Not very quickly. I spent over twenty days extracting only two portions of Life Essence, but as my strength improves, I can increase the speed," Jiang Yi said.

"Teacher, now that you've taken that Life Essence, can you estimate how much it would take to heal you completely?"

Li Lingyu frowned in thought, then said, "If you filled this bottle, it would probably take more than forty bottles, close to fifty."

He had only taken a small amount of Life Essence just now. This was his conservative estimate.

"Fifty bottles." Jiang Yi frowned slightly.

That was no small amount. At his current cultivation level,

he could condense about one-fifth of a bottle in around twenty-five days, and a full bottle would take a hundred and twenty-five days.

Condensing fifty bottles would take at least six thousand two hundred and fifty days, or more than seventeen years.

That was far too long.

In seventeen years, Huo Yuhao would already have become a god.

If I want to help Teacher heal his injuries, I'll have to step up my efforts to improve my Soul Power and spiritual power.

Only when his cultivation improved could he extract it faster.

Jiang Yi explained the situation to Li Lingyu, who showed no sign of displeasure.

Instead, he reassured him, "Just do your best. Don't let it interfere with your cultivation."

Jiang Yi said solemnly, "Teacher, I'll work hard to cultivate and improve my cultivation so I can treat your injuries as soon as possible."

Li Lingyu said nothing, merely patting Jiang Yi on the shoulder with satisfaction.

The thing he was most grateful for now was having taken Jiang Yi as his disciple.

Chapter 52: Sudden Change! Evil Soul Master (Please Keep Reading!)

On the third day after the New Year, the weather was not very good. Dark clouds filled the sky, making it even colder.

Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan got up early, as did Aunt Rou, of course.

Ever since they had moved from Azure Village to Spirit Mountain City, they had returned to Azure Village on the third day after the New Year to catch up with the villagers and bring them gifts.

Back then, when Aunt Rou had been raising the two children, many villagers had helped them.

Now that they had become Soul Masters, they naturally had to repay them.

"Little Yi, Nannan, let's go," Aunt Rou called into the house from the doorway.

"Coming!" Jiang Nannan ran cheerfully to Aunt Rou's side.

At that moment, Jiang Yi drove the carriage he had prepared earlier up to the two of them.

He and Jiang Nannan were Soul Masters, so they naturally had no need for a carriage, but Aunt Rou was an ordinary person and needed one.

"Get in," Jiang Yi said to them with a smile.

They boarded the carriage, and Jiang Yi cracked the whip and drove it out of Spirit Mountain City.

Early that morning, every household in Azure Village opened its doors and windows, and people went out to visit one another.

Children gathered to play beside the roads and fields, while the adults went to acquaintances' homes for other amusements.

Though it was not a big city, the small Azure Village was still immersed in the joy of the New Year on the third day after the holiday.

Generally, they would not start working again until the seventh day after the New Year.

Village Chief Qiaona, his hair white and a walking stick in hand, was strolling leisurely along a village road.

A few years ago, Village Chief Qiaona had still been able to drive Jiang Yi and Jiang Nannan to awaken their Martial Souls. Now he was older, and his steps had begun to falter.

Fortunately, the tonics Jiang Yi and the others had brought back for the New Year had kept him healthy.

But the effects that heavy labor in his youth had left on his legs and feet were somewhat difficult to get rid of.

He had already stepped down as village chief and passed the position on to his son, Qiao Yun.

"Old Village Chief, out for a stroll so early?"

"Old Qiao, come play cards over here. With those old arms and legs of yours, you shouldn't be running around."

The villagers around him spoke warmly to Qiaona, their voices full of affection and respect.

"Haha, no, I'll just take a walk by myself," Qiaona said with a laugh.

"You want to go to the village entrance to see if Ah Rou and Little Yi have arrived, don't you?"

"Don't worry. If they do come, they'll be sure to visit you first," a middle-aged woman said with a friendly smile.

His thoughts guessed, Village Chief Qiaona smiled without answering and continued toward the village entrance.

Although Jiang Yi and the others would come looking for him, he still liked to go and welcome them.

Just as everyone was still enjoying the bustle, three screams suddenly tore through the sky from the village entrance.

"Ah!"

Village Chief Qiaona's expression changed at once when he heard the screams.

The other villagers who were still enjoying themselves also looked utterly panicked, and some of the more timid ones had already begun running toward their homes.

As village chief, Qiaona quickly calmed down.

"Everyone, stay calm. All of you, return home in an orderly manner and hide in your cellars. The patrol team, follow me to take a look."

The old village chief Qiaona commanded great respect. Once he had spoken, the villagers obeyed and took shelter in an orderly manner.

Clearly, this did not seem to be the first time they had experienced something like this.

In this era, Evil Soul Masters ran rampant. Many of them openly carried out massacres in small villages far from cities,

absorbing civilians' blood and souls to improve their cultivation.

Although the Shrek Inspection Corps served as a deterrent, there were always some deranged Evil Soul Masters willing to take the risk.

After all, the Shrek Inspection Corps did not have many members. What if they couldn't find him?

Qiaona had been village chief for nearly thirty years and had experienced situations like this many times.

In his position as village chief, he naturally had to come up with a way to respond. His solution was to establish a patrol team to notify the Spirit Mountain City garrison in time.

After all, how could the villagers alone possibly stand against an Evil Soul Master?

Although Qiaona did not know exactly what had caused the scream from the village entrance, he had always treated emergencies as the worst possible case.

The ordinary villagers took their children to hide in the cellars, while the young and middle-aged men who had joined the patrol team ran over.

"Old Village Chief, you're getting on in years. I'll have someone take you to hide in a cellar. Leave what's happening aboveground to us."

Wang Hu, the patrol team's captain, spoke.

"Be careful. If anything seems wrong, run at once. If it really is an Evil Soul Master, there's no way we can deal with one."

Qiaona knew he was too old to go and investigate, so he simply gave Wang Hu and the others a solemn warning.

The patrol team's most important job was to find out exactly what emergency had occurred.

After that, they were to immediately send someone to Spirit Mountain City for help.

In an instant, Azure Village's cheerful, festive atmosphere turned tense.

Meanwhile, Jiang Yi and the others, who were traveling by carriage toward Azure Village, also stopped.

Jiang Yi had just sensed that something was wrong. His spiritual power was different from that of ordinary people, and at this distance, not too far from Azure Village,

he could already faintly hear screams coming from afar.

"Brother Jiang Yi, what's wrong?" When the carriage stopped, Jiang Nannan poked her head out and asked in confusion.

"There's something going on up ahead. Stay in the carriage and don't come out yet." Jiang Yi's expression was solemn.

He then got down from the carriage and walked into the patch of Blue Silver Grass ahead.

Azure Village had gotten its name because there was so much Blue Silver Grass in and around the village.

At their current distance from Azure Village, Jiang Yi's spiritual power was just barely capable of obtaining information from there.

He closed his eyes, released his spiritual power, and merged it with the Blue Silver Grass. His consciousness shifted toward Azure Village at an extreme speed.

At the entrance to Azure Village, a bloody scene was unfolding.

A middle-aged man dressed in blood-red clothes, his face deathly pale, was holding up a villager, biting his neck and frenziedly sucking his blood.

"Aaaah!" The extreme pain of blood rapidly leaving his body made the villager scream in agony.

The villager, who had been normal moments before, soon had his blood sucked dry and became a desiccated corpse.

"Hahaha, that felt amazing!" The middle-aged man threw back his head and laughed maniacally.

There were three more villagers at the entrance, including a child.

At the sight of the horrifying scene, the other villagers screamed.

They ran toward the village at top speed. Since Azure Village had a patrol team, the villagers had naturally been told about the existence of Evil Soul Masters.

Although they were terrified, they fled at once.

"Little bugs, I haven't eaten my fill yet, and you think you can run?"

A bloodthirsty smile spread across the red-clad middle-aged man's face. Then he arched his body and sprang forward like a fierce tiger.

He tackled a fleeing villager to the ground and used both hands to twist his neck and break it.

This time, he did not feast immediately, instead continuing to pounce on the other villagers.

Chapter 53: This Is My Home Turf (Please Keep Reading!)